Word: recouping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when the world recession hit Europe, causing stock markets to plunge and interest rates to soar. A desperate need for capital seems to have led Rosenbaum to use his Liechtenstein accounts to transfer funds siphoned from the bank to his other enterprises. Apparently Rosenbaum believed that he would eventually recoup and pay the money back...
...hoped, would result in a further Israeli withdrawal in the Sinai. The Egyptian President also knows, however, that Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev, who will visit Cairo in mid-January, will emphasize the need for an early resumption of the Geneva conference, through which the Soviets might recoup some of the Middle East influence they lost last year when Sadat turned to the West for support and Kissinger scored his disengagement successes. Moreover, Sadat knows he must not move too quickly lest he seem to be abandoning Syria, his principal ally in the October war. For his part, Syrian President...
...news in a town suffering the worst slump in car sales since 1958. The afternoon competition, the Detroit News, immediately saw the dynamite in the story, got a statement from Ford, and ran it on Page One, scooping the Free Press. Next day the Free Press tried lamely to recoup with predictable reactions from economists...
Fight promoters would undoubtedly agree. Despite the five-week postponement of the fight, Gentleman Ali's charisma attracted enough closed-circuit TV viewers to recoup the $12 million invested in the bout-good news for Zaire's President Mobutu Sese Seko. who personally plowed $11.4 million into the match. Attendance at U.S. theaters, however, was far lower than hoped for, and the gross take will fall far short of the $40 million goal. The fighters' purses-$5 million each-were guaranteed in advance...
...much from a relationship that is at best a contest between natural, if friendly adversaries. If some reporters felt especially betrayed by the White House's dishonesty, it might be because they had come to believe their own over-generous assessments of the new President. Ford could still recoup some credibility by finding another good press secretary. At present, the job is being filled by terHorst's deputy, Jack Hushen, 39, a former Justice Department information officer. Hushen's mess-ups at press briefings last week and his low esteem among White House correspondents have probably disqualified...